Reach next level fan engagement
Power extreme concurrent viewership with interactive realtime experiences to retain your fans for longer.
CUSTOMERS BUILDING ON ABLY
Works with sports, betting, and media organizations, empowering them to unlock the value of realtime sports data.
Enables sports clubs like Manchester City and Newcastle United to deliver live updates in under 0.5 seconds to their fans.
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A leading live streaming platform enabling millions of fans to chat and react together in realtime.
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Delivering immersive second screen experiences that keeps enthusiasts coming back for more.
A realtime experiences platform built for the new era of fan engagement
Built for extreme concurrent viewership - No scale ceiling. Near-infinite elasticity absorbing millions of concurrent connections across the globe.
Reliable at scale++ - Secure, reliable and fault tolerant with 99.999% uptime SLAs
Realtime. All the time - Lowest latency on the market, powered by the world’s fastest websocket platform.
Pricing that scales - Make optimal use of your budget. Engage fans without sacrificing ROI
Innovation unlocked - Create the live experiences your customers demand with our fully featured SDKs
We could talk for hours about the technical excellence of the product or the great value that Ably brings for our business. But it is the level of care that the Ably team demonstrates every single day for their customers that makes their solution a no-brainer for us.
Innovation unlocked. Build the ultimate fan experience with our realtime building blocks.
Show fans who is offline/online and how many others are watching with them.
Create a rich chat experience with polls, quizzes, reactions and more.
Deliver cross-platform push notifications with our iOS and Android SDKs.
Publish messages to millions of subscribers over channels that support multiplexing.
Retrieve previously published messages and historical presence events.
On disconnect we keep connection state and attempt reconnection every 15 seconds for two minutes.
Ably guarantees all messages are delivered in the same order as originally published.
Pub/sub over WebSockets, MQTT, and Server-Sent Events (SSE).
From Webhooks to Lambdas to stream processors like Kafka, Ably has built integrations for a range of protocols, frameworks, databases and cloud services.
Maximise your budget. Keep fans engaged without sacrificing ROI
Delivering exceptional fan experiences, cost effectively and at scale is putting new pressures on realtime infrastructures. With pricing built for scale and features created intentionally to optimise usage, Ably not only enables you to make best use of your budget but also enjoy greater flexibility, faster build times and a quicker ROI.
Monthly, hourly or MAU pricing - priced to suit your use case.
Discounts that scale - we reward high usage.
Platform efficiencies - levers to optimise the realtime experience.
How NASCAR delivers realtime data to fans around the world
Each NASCAR Cup Series race generates 1.3 TB of high-frequency data, which is processed then streamed in realtime to fans. In this interview Chad Larter, Senior Director of Technical Operations for NASCAR talks through how NASCAR tackles this large-scale realtime data challenge with Ably. Read the case study
Our formal evaluation process and double load testing proved that Ably was the only platform that could meet our very challenging performance targets. They delivered without a hitch in 2018 and we look forward to working with them again next year.
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